“My teacher didn’t like the project, because I put it on the wrong size paper.”
Either you are bullshitting, or you better learn what size paper to do your homework on. Winning is easier than being right, and winning is much more fun.
I don't have a teenage kid, but there I think there are two thing that are important.
1) Acquiring new knowledge should be self-rewarding.
2) Winning is fun.
This parent seems to have a kid that hasn't experienced the joy of the #2. He seems to actively prevent his kid from winning because he thinks winning is wrong. This is a common theme where parents constrain their children to do no better than themselves.
Children of immigrants tend to be incredibly successful because their parents have no such inhibitions.
> Winning is easier than being right, and winning is much more fun.
Hence why we have a society full of puppets with new cars in the garage.
What an awful way to think, I'm disgusted by your reasoning. For whatever meaning of "winning" you have, life only matters if you do what you believe in, otherwise it's not worth living.
I am sorry. I wrote that from the wrong perspective. I was raised in a tiny town in the southern US, where being "right" has something to do with "praising jesus". Thanks to my parents, I was encouraged to "win" and now I live in NYC, and have a great job, a wife I love and respect, and an awesome daughter.
My point is not about right vs. winning, it is more about giving your children the tools to do well in any environment.
So in this case, 'what you believe in' is not following the instructions as to which size of paper to use? This is what my mom always referred to as 'cutting off your nose to spite your face.'
If my face was more concerned about the media I attached my work to than my work itself, I would definitely cut off my nose to spite it. FUCK YOU, FACE!
Either you are bullshitting, or you better learn what size paper to do your homework on. Winning is easier than being right, and winning is much more fun.
I don't have a teenage kid, but there I think there are two thing that are important.
1) Acquiring new knowledge should be self-rewarding. 2) Winning is fun.
This parent seems to have a kid that hasn't experienced the joy of the #2. He seems to actively prevent his kid from winning because he thinks winning is wrong. This is a common theme where parents constrain their children to do no better than themselves.
Children of immigrants tend to be incredibly successful because their parents have no such inhibitions.